Pan-Mediterranean interculturality is a major concern of the present day. It is our conviction that this is not only a wishful thinking or a goal to achieve, but also something that had existed in the past, be it only at the level of the learned communities, and something that it is our responsibility to re-discover. Follow…read more

Studia graeco-arabica has been initiated in 2011 as part and parcel of the ERC research project “Greek into Arabic”. In five years it has already gained a reputation for publishing high quality scholarship on the transmission of the philosophical and scientific learning from Greek into Arabic and Syriac, and from Arabic into Latin. Studia graeco-arabica…read more

Per Palmira. Giornata dedicata alla memoria di Khaled Al-Asaad – Pisa, Gipsoteca di Arte Antica, Piazza San Paolo all’Orto, December 9, 2015, 10:00 AM. The archeological site of Palmira is the latest victim of the cultural carnage perpetrated by the Islamic State. The archeologist Khaled Al-Asaad, Director of the site, has been beheaded, the temples and…read more

We cordially invite you to attend the international meeting on the transmission of Porphyry’s Isagoge (Introduction to Aristotle’s Categories) from Late Antiquity to the Arabic and Latin Middle Ages, to be held on November 8-10, 2017 in Padova (Sala “Sante Bortolami”, Palazzo Jonoch Gulinelli, via del Vescovado 30). The meeting is organised by the International Research Centre GrAL…read more